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Counting MySQL Records

Hello everybody,

I have a website that has a lot of articles for webmasters, and I want to be able to print out that a given category has x number of records. How would I do this?

Here's an example: I have a Category_ID = 3. How could I have PHP search the database for any article that has Category_ID = 3 and then display the number of records that it found? I don't want the records to display, just the number of records.